Pomace-laying attachment for wine or cider presses



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UNITED STATES PATENT rErcE.

SAMUEL E. TOOLEY, OF OAZENOVIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THE BOOMER St BOSOHERT PRESS COMPANY, OF SYRAOUSE, NEW YORK.

POMACE-LAYING ATTACHMENT FOR WINE OR CIDER PRESSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,048, dated @croiser 25, 1887.

Application filed May 5, 1857. Serial No. 237,178. (N o model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL E. TooLEY, of Cazenovia, in the county of Madison, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Poniace-Laying Attachments for Wine or Cider Presses, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention consists in a novel construction of a machine designed to lay, in an expeditious and convenient manner, pomace in successive layers under a press preparatory to expressing the liquid from said pomace, as hereinafter fully described, and specifically set forth in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sideelevation of apomace-laying apparatus embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on line x w, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 isa vertical transverse section on line y y, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detail view of the construction of the ends of the belt-slats, and Fig. 6 is a longitudinal sectional view cf a portion of the pomace-carrying belt, showing the attachment of the wooden slats to the top and bottom-layers of textile fabric or canvas.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A and A represen-t, respectively, the footblock or press-bed and head-block of a wine or cider press. B B denote the tie-rods which connect the aforesaid parts to each other, and C represents the follower which applies the pressure to the substance interposed between it and the press-bed A. The power for operating the follower may be derived either from toggles D D,operated by-a ri ght-and-left screw, E, as shown, or by any other suitable and wellknown mechanism.

From the press-bed A is extended a platform, P, preferably supported inclined toward the press, as shown in Fig. 2 ofthe drawings, and provided with upward-projecting flanges along its longitudinal edges and across its lower end, and with a gutter, a, across said end.

F represents a prolonged belt, composed of 5o bottom and top sheets, b b, of canvas or other suitable textile fabric, and wooden slats c c, arranged parallel side by side between the sheets b b and crosswise the belt, and secured thereto, preferably, by strapsb',passing through longitudinal slots d d in the ends of the slats and secured to the canvas sheets, as shown in Fig. 6 of the drawings. This belt is drawn length- Wise over the top of the platform P by means of rotatable shafts or drums H and H', one of which is arranged crosswise beneath the end of the platform farthest from the press, and journaled in hangers suspended from the platform and provided with a crank by which to turn it. The other drum, H', is arranged between the follower C and pressbed A, and is 65 journaled at its ends in boxes carried in bars I, which loosely embrace the tie-rods B B and are guided vertically thereon. The bars l I are carried by the follower C by hangers c e, suspended from thel latter and slotted longi` 7o tudinally through their central and main portions, and through the slots thereof pass the' bolts by whichl the hangers are connectedl to the aforesaid bars.

The bare belt F is wound up on the drum KH, and from thence passes to the drum H',

upon which it is wound in opposite directions from the winding thereof on the drum H, and thus as the belt is wound upon one drum it is paid out 0r unwound from the other drum. 8o Over the platform P is arranged either a grater, L, as shown in Fig. l of the drawings, or a Chute leading from a grater to thebelt F, lying upon the platform,to deliver the pomace to the belt.

' The slats c c extend only part way the width of the belt F, leaving pliablelongitudinal flaps ff along the two sides of the belt, and these flaps are folded inward upon the poniace by inward overhanging longitudinal plates g g, 9o secured to the platform at opposite edges of the belt. l

y The pomace-laden belt is wound upon the drum H', which is raised to accommodateit to the increasing diameter thereof, by operating 95 the press so as to raise the follower, which, by means of the hangers e e, lifts the journal-car rying bars I I. The aforesaid winding up of the pomace-laden belt may be done intermittently, and during the intervals of its rest the rco press may he operated to apply pressure to the pomace inelosed in the wound-up belt. I prefer to wind up the pomaceladcn belt by means of a bevelgcar, 71, secured to the shaft of the drum H and meshing in a bevel-gear, i, which is connected to a vertical shaft, t, stepped in sockets m m, secured to the pressbed and head-block of the press. 'Ihe gearwhcel t' is connected with the shaft Z by spline and groove, which allows the said wheel to slide vertically and compels it to rotate with the shaft. The wheel t' is maintained in gear with the wheel i1y by an arm, a, proj ccting from the bar I and terminating with a sleeve, a",

immediately above the hub of the wheel i, through which sleeve the shaft Z passes To the upper end of this shaft is secured a concpullcy, N, placed with its large end upward, and to a powertransniiiting shaft, O, is socured another cone-pulley, N', placed reverse or with its large end downward, as shown in Fig. l of the drawings. Said cone-pulleys are connected with each other by a driving-beit, o, and to the follower is secureda bcltshiftcr, p, which shifts the said belt up and down automatically with the upward and downward movement of the follower.

By the described arrangement of the conepulleys and their connections the rotation of the drum H is slackcncd as the diameter there of is increased by the pomace laden belt wound thereon.

After all the pomace has been subjected to the press thc motion of the mechanism Which operates the drum ll is to be reversed and the belt to be drawn back and wound upon the drum or shaft H, and during this operation the belt is cleaned from the dry pomace by means of ascrapcr, r, which is extended across the inverted portion of the belt directly in front of the drum or shaft H, and sustained in its position by arms s, projecting from the brackets t t, on which the drum or shaft H is journaled. In order to facilitate the travel of the belt over the end of th'eplatform, I extend along said end a roller, It, journaled at its ends in portions of the bracketst, as shown in Fig. l of the drawings.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A pomace laying apparatus comprising a prolonged pomace-carrying belt, aplatform for supporting said belt,and a winder arranged to wind the pomace laden belt into successive layers, as set forth.

2. A pomacc-laying apparatus comprising a prolonged pomace-carryiu g belt, a platform for supporting said belt, a pomace-depositor over the belt, and a Winder arranged to wind the pomace-ladcn belt into successive layers, substantially as set forth.

3. A pomacc-laying apparatus comprising a prolonged pomace-carrying belt, a platform for supporting said belt, a pomace-depositor over said belt, inward ovcrhanging longitudinal plates at opposite edges of the belt to fold the same longitudinally, and a drum at the end of the platform adapted to wind thereon the pomace laden belt, substantially as dcscribed and shown.

4. A pomace-laying apparatus comprising a platform, rotatable drums or shafts atopposite ends ofsaid platform, and a belt wound at opposite ends in opposite directions on said drums or shafts, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

5. A pomace-laying apparatus comprising a platform, rotatable drums or shafts at opp0- site ends ofsaid platform, a belt wound at opposite ends in opposite directions ou said drums or shafts, and a pomaee-depositor over the belt between the drumsor shafts, substarr tially as described and shown.

6. The combination, in awine or cider press, of a platform extending from the press-bed, a rotatable drum arranged horizontally between the follower and platform, and a pomacecarrying belt on the platform and connected to the aforesaid drum, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

7 The combination, in a wine or cider press, of a platform extending from the pressbed, verticallyguided `journal-boxes arranged movably under the follower at opposite sides of the press, a drum journaled in said boxes,and apomacc-carrying belton the platform and connected to the aforesaid drum, substantially as described and shown.

S. rlhe combination,in a wine or cider press, of a plat-form extending from the press-bed, verticallyguided i carnal-boxes arranged mov ably under the follower at opposite sidesof the press, a drum journaled in said boxes, a pomace-carrying belt on the platform and connected to the aforesaid drum, and a pomaccdepositor over the belt, substantially as described and shown.

9. The combination,in awine or cider press, of a platform extending from the press-bed, vertically-slotted hangers suspended from the follower, vertically-guided journalboxes arranged movably at opposite sides of the press, connected with the hangers in the slots thereof, a drum journaled in said boxes,and a pomaeecarrying belt connected to said drum, substantially as set forth and shown.

10. The combination,inawine or cider press, of a platform extending from the press-bed, vcrtically-guidedjournal-boxes arranged Inovably at opposite sides of the press between the follower and platform, a drum journaled in said boxes, a gear on said drum, a vertical power-transmitting shaft, a gear on said shaft engaging the gear of the drum, and a pomacccarrying belt on the platform and connected at one end with thc aforesaid drum, substantially as described and shown.

l1. The combination,in awinc or cidcrprcss, of a plat-form extending from thc press-bed, verticallyguided journal box carriers arranged movably at opposite sides of the press Irl,

between the follower and platform, a drum j ournaled in the boxes of said carriers, a bevel-gear on said drum, hangers connecting the journalbox carriers with the follower, a vertical shaft extended across the end of one of the drumjournals, a bevel-gear on the `vertical shaft, adapted to slide lengthwise thereon and locked to rotate with the same, a power-transmitting shaft arranged parallel with the aforesaid Vertical shaft, cone-pulleys placedreversed from cach other on the said shafts, a drivingbelt connecting said pulleys, and a beltlshifter connected to the follower of the press,substantall y as described and shown.

12. In a wine or cider press, a poniace carrying belt, composed of sheets of textile fabric and wooden slats arranged parallel side by side across the belt, between the sheets of` textile fabric, and fastened thereto, substantially as described and shown.

13. In combination lwith the platform P and belt F, the drum or shaft H, arranged under.`

the platform,and the rollers R, extended across the end of the platform, substantially as described and shown.

14. In combination with the platform P and belt F, the drum or shaft H, arranged under the platform, the roller R, extended across the end of the platforin,and the scraper @arranged tobear on the inverted portion of the belt,sub siantially as described and shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my seal,in the presence of two attesting witnesses, at Cazenovia, in the county of Madison, in `the State of New York, this 26th day of April, 1887.

SAMUEL E. TOOLEY. [L s] Witnesses:

WILLIAM H. WEBBER, HIRAM D. MEssnNeER. 

